Mary Duncan

Mary Duncan lives in Paris, France and La Jolla, California. Her memoir, "Henry Miller is Under My Bed: People and Places on the Way to Paris," has been praised by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hugh Hefner, San Diego Magazine and the Mail on Sunday.

She is the coordinator of the Paris Writers Group, which she created in June 2008. PWG meets monthly to discuss issues related to the business aspects of writing and publishing.

A native of San Diego, California, she taught at San Diego State University for twenty-five years. Her academic subjects ranged from terrorism and the Irish Republican Army to leisure and work in contemporary society. As a professor, she published numerous articles on these subjects and has been interviewed on CNN, NBC, CBS and ABC. She has also lectured at the Smithsonian Institution and Oxford University.